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Page 49 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 49 - An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.
Page 237 - ... 4. — (1.) An action against a trade union, whether of workmen or masters, or against any members or officials thereof on behalf of themselves and all other members of the trade union in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court.
Page 50 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that ft induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labor as he wills.
Page 237 - ... in respect of any tortious act alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of the trade union, shall not be entertained by any court. (2) Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the trustees of a trade union to be sued in the events provided for by the Trade Union Act, 1871, section 9, except in respect of any tortious act committed by or on behalf of the union in contemplation or in furtherance of a trade dispute.
Page 67 - Party should have as a definite object the Socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, to be controlled by a Democratic State in the interests of the entire community ; and the complete emancipation of Labour from the domination of Capitalism and Landlordism, with the establishment of social and economic equality between the sexes.
Page 135 - That a continual agitation be carried on in favour of increasing the minimum wage and shortening the hours of work until we have extracted the whole of the employers
Page 186 - The Commonwealth shall protect every State against invasion and, on the application of the Executive Government of the State, against domestic violence.
Page 135 - The Elimination of the Employer. "This can only be obtained gradually and in one way. We cannot get rid of employers and slave-driving in the mining industry, until all other industries have organised for, and progressed towards, the same objective. Their rate of progress conditions ours, all we can do is to set an example and the pace.
Page 68 - It is not competent to a Trade Union either originally to insert in its objects or by amendment to add to its objects something so wholly distinct from the objects contemplated by the Trade Union Acts as a provision to secure Parliamentary representation.